A 21st Century Racial Crusade
One month ago, three Kansans sought to detonate a bomb on an apartment complex (and a Mosque), so that all its occupants,Somali-Muslims, may disappear in a tragic but necessary death for one sole purpose; spark a new Crusade (Wootson, 2016, para.1). Although it might be an isolated event, its origins are well rooted from a religious and racist ideology, ignited by the media and certain influent and ignorant people. Let’s make it clear, being Muslim does not make you part of a ‘race’, and the author did not explicitly mention the term racism, but this situation at... [+] Read more

" What kind of women do I wish?, wonders a young thirty years old Chinese man. It does not matter! It is so difficult to find a woman today. I want one, that's it! " For several years already, a new phenomenon appeared in China: a women's deficit. Indeed, there are today 34 millions more men than women in China, and only women's deficit causes in its turn a birth’s deficit.
This phenomenon is largely due to the One-child policy, set up in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping, and to the discriminations against women. So, more and more Chinese have only a single child and, most of the time, they wish it... [+] Read more

Sofie Peeters's documentary *, which deals with street harassment in Brussels, came in 2012 as a bombshell in the public debate and gave birth to numerous reactions on the Web. Since then, other videos followed from New York or Paris, showing exactly the same phenomenon. **
What is street harassment? Street harassment is " the behavior addressed to people in public and semi public places, to call out on them (be it verbally or not), sending them intimidating, insistent, disrespectful, humiliating, offensive messages because of their sex, of their gender or of their sexual... [+] Read more

"A stunning drama about the desperate state of women in Iran" said the famous Wall Street Journal (13/04/2001) about The Circle.
Several protagonist, all women, follow each other all along the film. One after another, the spectators reconsider the place of women in Iran : restrictions, difficulties to exist as a human being, feminine suffering, gender inequality. One of the most significant examples is when a woman says to another one “Without a man you can’t go anywhere” meaning no freedom of moving, and imply that they are quite nothing if a male doesn’t escorted them. This... [+] Read more

In his film " The Circle ", Jafar Panahi deals with discriminations suffered by women in Iran. From the first scene, we understand that being born as a woman is not easy in the Iranian society. The different followed women during the film have to face up several discriminations: ban to smoke, obligation to have a veil, ban to travel alone or without the permission of the father or of the husband, ban to abort without the same permission, etc. These women seem to be really locked into a vicious circle (“The Circle”), without exits.
Thus, having seen this movie, I wondered if in such a...[+] Read more

The article “France: pas de niqab à l’Opéra Bastille’’ was published on October 22, 2014 by LaPresse and written by Emilie Cote. This article demonstrates the injustice that women wearing the niqab live with in France. In fact, a law adopted in 2010 obligates women that are wearing a niqab or any other clothes that could hide their face to not show up in public space. This is why, October 3rd, a Muslim women assisting to the Opera La Traviata de Verdi was expelled during the intermission. Some of the singers were not comfortable with the presence of a woman wearing a niqab. The women was... [+] Read more

The article ‘’les actes antisémistes se sont multipliés en France’’ has been published and edited in September 11th, 2014 by LaPresse. This article describes how anti-Semitic acts of violence have dramatically increased in France in the year. Jews are victims of terrorist attempts, vandalism and some of their commerces are set to fire. Jews are also verbally attacked and Synagogues and other community space are the victims of gang attacks. This was never seen before. People are scared and an increase in emigration has been noticed. Jews are leaving Europe to go in Israel.... [+] Read more